Enrollment Trends at OUKC

Student Population Changes

The average student population over the last 11 years is 476 where 528 students are attending the school for the academic year 2024-2025.

41.86% of total students is undergraduate students and 58.14% students is graduate students. The number of undergraduate students has decreased by 100 and the graduate enrollment has increased by 244 over past 10 years.

The female to male ratio is 2.80 to 1 and it means that there are far more female students enrolled in OUKC than male students.

The following table and chart illustrate the changes in student population by gender at Ottawa University-Kansas City since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Level Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Undergraduate			Graduate
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	384	321	109	212	63	26	37
2016-17	431 47	379 58	121 12	258 46	52 -11	20 -6	32 -5
2017-18	396 -35	345 -34	109 -12	236 -22	51 -1	17 -3	34 2
2018-19	493 97	328 -17	77 -32	251 15	165 114	81 64	84 50
2019-20	546 53	306 -22	66 -11	240 -11	240 75	127 46	113 29
2020-21	532 -14	257 -49	50 -16	207 -33	275 35	152 25	123 10
2021-22	551 19	294 37	63 13	231 24	257 -18	136 -16	121 -2
2022-23	468 -83	275 -19	64 1	211 -20	193 -64	85 -51	108 -13
2023-24	431 -37	226 -49	43 -21	183 -28	205 12	96 11	109 1
2024-25	528 97	221 -5	42 -1	179 -4	307 102	97 1	210 101
Average	476	295	74	221	181	84	97

Undergraduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Undergraduate students over the last 11 years is 295 where 221 students are attending the Undergraduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Undergraduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Ottawa University-Kansas City since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	321	4	2	2	317	107	210
2016-17	379	1	0	1	378	121	257
2017-18	345	215	62	153	130	47	83
2018-19	328	196	39	157	132	38	94
2019-20	306	112	21	91	194	45	149
2020-21	257	94	16	78	163	34	129
2021-22	294	113	30	83	181	33	148
2022-23	275	83	19	64	192	45	147
2023-24	226	83	16	67	143	27	116
2024-25	221	90	15	75	131	27	104
Average	295	295	22	77	295	52	144

Graduate Enrollment Changes

The average number of Graduate students over the last 11 years is 181 where 307 students are attending the Graduate school for the academic year 2024-2025. The following table and chart illustrate the changes in Graduate enrollment by attending status and gender at Ottawa University-Kansas City since 2015.

• Trends Table
• By Gender Chart
• By Status Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	Total	Full-time			Part-time
		Total	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women
2015-16	63	0	0	0	63	26	37
2016-17	52	0	0	0	52	20	32
2017-18	51	14	3	11	37	14	23
2018-19	165	2	1	1	163	80	83
2019-20	240	13	1	12	227	126	101
2020-21	275	23	4	19	252	148	104
2021-22	257	192	105	87	65	31	34
2022-23	193	146	69	77	47	16	31
2023-24	205	173	84	89	32	12	20
2024-25	307	264	76	188	43	21	22
Average	181	181	34	48	181	49	49

Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity Changes

The percentage of white students is 41.48% and the percentage of black students is 15.34% at Ottawa University-Kansas City. 27.84% of enrolled students is Asian. Hispanic students comprise 8.71% of the student body.

Over the past 10 years, the racial composition has shifted. The percentage of white students decreased from 70.83% to 41.48%. Asian enrollment grew from 4.43% to 27.84%. Black student enrollment increased from 11.72% to 15.34%. Hispanic student representation expanded from 0.26% to 8.71%.

The overall racial diversity, measured by the Census Bureau Diversity Index, is 0.7188 which indicates that quite diverse. This increased from 0.4820 a decade ago, suggesting that racial diversity has improved.

The following table and chart illustrate the student population trends by race/ethnicity at Ottawa University-Kansas City over the past 11 years (2015-2025).

• Trends Table
• Interactive Chart
• Downloadable Chart

Year	American Indian or Native American	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races
	2015-16	2	17	45	1	0	272	9
2016-17	6	16	48	0	0	321	16
2017-18	2	15	32	31	0	291	12
2018-19	7	105	38	24	0	290	7
2019-20	7	171	41	28	1	275	3
2020-21	6	194	28	22	1	251	2
2021-22	4	176	15	34	2	285	0
2022-23	7	100	37	45	2	252	16
2023-24	10	101	37	44	0	221	10
2024-25	8	147	81	46	0	219	9
Average	6	104	40	28	1	268	8